It turns out that some people miss my April Fool's Day posts when I don't write them. My apologies, with the first of April falling on Easter Monday this year I was busy with family and in addition had a pen & paper roleplaying session in the evening. And I didn't have any brilliant idea for a nearly plausible piece of news anyway.

Nils has got it right. All the horrible worst-case-scenario April Fools jokes which had groundings in reality are now more scary than funny.

Ideas for April Fool's jokes:

The next Starcraft game will be F2P with a multiplayer subscription and campaign chapter microtransactions. WoW is coming to iOS. EA is looking into funding its games through Kickstarter. Splinter Cell will become a cover-based shooter. Sim City will be a casual multiplayer-only online game. Diablo 3 will be online-only with no mod support and an in-game auction house using real money... with a dramatically improved version coming out on consoles a year later.

*slow head-shake*Things that would've had us rolling our eyes in cynical disbelief only a couple years ago...

Mostly I'm not a fan of the April Fool's Day jokes because it makes it difficult/annoying to find REAL news.